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Where Are the WMD...
Your report "Weapons Of Mass Disappearance" [NATION, June 9] noted that President Bush justified a pre-emptive war on Saddam by saying he possessed chemical and biological arms--weapons of mass destruction (WMD). If the Bush Administration had concentrated on making public Saddam's serious human-rights abuses instead of focusing on WMD, it would not have lost credibility when no evidence of a WMD program was found. The war would have been justified by the discovery of the bodies of thousands of Saddam's victims. PIERRE BASMAJI Berkeley, Calif...
Your article missed the point. The U.S. went to war to subdue a country that endorsed, encouraged and supported terrorism. As a target of terrorist acts, the U.S. has the moral and legal right to defend itself. After 9/11, the question of Iraq's WMD became secondary to the main problem of eliminating a terrorist dictator who was a danger to all. DAN STRUM Jerusalem...
...President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair were so devious as to manipulate the intelligence about WMD, then certainly they would go the last mile and fabricate the discovery of WMD in postwar Iraq. Had evil manipulation been at play, the troops would be holding up large caches of WMD for Americans and the rest of the world to see. PETER MELARAGNO Miami Beach...
...British casualties are likely to turn up the heat on Prime Minister Tony Blair, facing accusations in his own parliament that he misled the nation into war by deliberately exaggerating the WMD threat posed by Iraq. They may also reinforce the resistance of British military chiefs to sending more troops, as requested by Washington, into what British officers believe may be a quagmire...